Each body has its art.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.